Account holders of Celsius should be on the lookout for phishing schemes after the company disclosed that some of its customer information was compromised by a third party. Clients of Celsius were notified via email on July 26 that a record of their email addresses had been exposed by a worker of one of its corporate data management and messaging partners. As per Celsius, a Customer.io messaging platform developer was responsible for the hack by disclosing the information to a malicious third party. In an email to clients, Celsius stated, “We were recently informed by our vendor Customer.io that one of their employees accessed a list of Celsius client email addresses.” The hack that exposed the email addresses of OpenSea customers in June also included the data leak. Even so, Celsius downplayed the event, claiming that it didn’t “present any undue risks to our consumers” and that they only asked them to “be aware.” Customer.io stated in a blog post on July 7 that- “We know this was a result of the deliberate actions of a senior engineer who had an appropriate level of access to perform their duties and provided these email addresses to the bad actor.” Since then, the employee has been fired. Both the number of emails that were released and the platform where they were hacked were kept secret. But the crypto sphere has begun to alert Celsius consumers to phishing assaults, which often happen after an email data leak. Targeted E...
